Squash-Specific Conditioning
by
AJ Lamb, MS, CSCS, PES
Supervisor / Senior Exercise Physiologist of Zarett Rehab and Fitness
Joe Zarett, Physical Therapist
Founder of Zarett Rehab and Fitness
As we observe the wide variety of energy requirements seen in sport, we...
Zarett Rehab & Fitness: Workout of Champions
By AJ Lamb, MS, CSCS, PES, Senior Exercise Physiologist
& Joseph Zarett, Physical Therapist, Founder of Zarett Rehab & Fitnes
In the late fall of 2016, two of the world’s most elite squash players, Mohamed and...
Overuse Syndrome
By Joseph Zarett
Professional squash players’ bodies are like musical instruments. If you play properly, it is beautiful music. If you don’t, you can break the strings.
Last year, Mohamed Elshorbagy came in to visit me...
Achilles Injury: Prevention
By Jeremy Mayer, US Squash National Team Sports Physiologist
The Achilles tendon represents the conjoined tendons of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. It is the strongest tendon in the human body, made up of “strands”...
Single Leg Strength for Squash
By Damon Leeedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Single leg strength is essential to improving speed, balance and movement
in squash. Many strength programs place too heavy a focus on double-leg exercises such as squats and leg presses, or other...
The Mind Game—Managing Competition II
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In the previous article we discussed mental preparation in the build up to a match including using the warm up effectively to achieve a goal-orientated/play to win...
The Mind Game—Better By Mistake
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In some sports a mistake can be the defining movement between success and failure at the highest level: missing a gate in a ski slalom event; over-rotating on...
The Mind Game—Fear of Failure: Playing to Win or Not to Lose?
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Sport provides a great environment in which we can learn about taking risks, losing with good sportsmanship, and ultimately using our failures or losses to grow as...
Gluten-Free: Diet or Fad?
By Candace Chemtob
With “A-list” movie stars, and nearly one third of Americans decreasing or completely eliminating gluten (Huffington press, 2013), why is “everyone” on this diet? And what is gluten? Gluten is a latin...
The Mind Game — Self-Belief
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist and Conditioning Specialist
In a diversion from the usual context of my articles around physical training, I wanted to venture into probably the most critical factor in influencing success in any competitive...